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Oct. 26, 1948. G. N. DOBlE, JR

FOLDER 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed Dec. 20, 1944 EIM/i/Q.

Illllllflllll Patented Get. 26, 1948 I barren sures new FOLDERcorporation otflhio ApplicationDecember 20, 1944, S,erial'l,\lo.56,9;fl95.

12 Claims.

1 The invention relates to folders, and particularly to articles of'thischaracter of the'vertically filing type formed from a blank of paperstock and serving as a filing receptacle for letters, memoranda, andother data constituting the record of a chain of activities, status of ajob in progress, and other individual orselective records.

The improved folder not only serves as a filing receptacle but also isformed to provide a support or mounting for indentification orclassification elements, such as pilot cards, serving to identify thepapers or other material filed in the folder with a' certain individualor job, also sew-- ing to indicate the status of a job or the transaction recorded by the filed material.

The annexed drawings and the following de scription set forth in detailcertain means illustrating the improvements in folders, such disclosedmeans constituting, however, only one-of the various forms in which theprinciple of the invention may be embodied.

In said annexed drawings: Figure l isa plan view of one side of arectangular cut and scored blank of paper stock which can be formed intothe improved folder of the instant invention, the view being a plan ofthat side of the blank which forms the inside of the folder;

Figure 2 is a side-elevation of theblank shown in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a plan of the blank shown in Figure 1 after a comparativelyshort end member thereof has been folded so as to form a two-plyformation with a part of an-adiacent member and has been locked to saidadjacent member;

Figure 4 is a transverse longitudinal section of theformation shown inFigure 3, taken in. the plane indicated by the line i i, Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a bottom plan of a top portion of the formation shown inFigure 3;

Figure 6 is a front elevation of the completely folded paper blank,including a-suggestion of the filed material for which the folder servesas a receptacle, the view being partially broken away, showing anidentification or classifying card .thesamespartsare; indicated by thesame respective numbers in the several Views, the improved folder ismade from a blank i of paper stock and preferably of rectangularformation, the blank I having spaced transverse score lines 2 and 3,thus forming'blank'partsdyii' and '6. {T e scoring 2 is preferablycomprisedofitwo slightly spaced score lines 2 whereby, inyth-e foldingof the blank I into the finished formation, sufficient space is providedbetween the some lines '2 to form a base support'lir, Figure 7, for-theedges of papers or other material fonwhich the folder forms a filingcompartment. llhis compartment is an elongated vertical chamberextending from the bottom closed end "of" the folder formed between thescore lines 2 un te the top-opening of'the folder adjacent the upperedges of'theblankparts' i and 5. The comparatively short blank endportion '6 foldedon the score line 3 and infolde'd' intothe elongatedver tical compartment formed between the folded plies t and 5 thussubdivides the elongated vertical compartment into a comparatively shortpocket between the opposed plies; 5 and 6'- and into a comparativelylong overlyinga-nd overlapping compartment between the opposed plies 4and 5 and the opposed plies t and 6.

The completed fold-er is'formed by fol'dingthe blank i onthe scorelines2 and 3, wi-thprovisi'ons for a locking together of certain foldedjblankparts andfor the reception and retention of identification orclassifying elements such as name or number cards; The blank parts whichare locked together are the intermediate part 5 'andthe comparativelyshort end part 6. This locking is effected by a tongue l-which'is formedfromthe paper stock of the-intermed iatc blank part 5 and which, whenthe blank i is "folded along the score line 3, registers with an arcuateslit8 formed in the stock of' the endblank part 6. The edge of thetongue 1 is of somewhat hook formation having the laterally directedbulging part 1 whereby, when the tonguel ispass'ed through-the slit 8'of the folded-over blank part 6, Figures Band 4, until the'slitliregisters with the-base -1 of the tongue '5, the=bulging part serves asa lock for holding the blank parts ii and'li securely together. Theblank parts 5 and 6 are secured together adjacent the inner end of thecomparatively short blank endmember 6, thus forming a pocket I I, Figure9, comparatively short relative to I the length of "the aforesaidelongated compartment, this pocket" extending fromthesecuredarea'b'etween the plies- 5 and 'B-to thefold line 3g.Ass-indicated, there are a plurality of transversely alignedtongues Iand alike number of transversely aligned respectively cooperating slits8.

The improved folder also serves as a mounting for identification orclassifying elements, and for this purpose the tongues 1 also serve asstops in the insertion of the identification elements in the folder andas supports for said elements. For this last-mentioned purpose, the endblank part 6 is formed with a transverse series of slits 9 adjacent itsinner end, each one of which slits 9 is aligned with a tongue 1 and itscooperating slit 8 and disposed intermediate the tongue 1 and slit 8 sothat when the blank I is folded upon the score line 3, the slits 9 aredisposed adjacent the upper end of the blank thus folded, Figures 3 and4. These slits 9 are of a length suitable to accommodate anidentification card l such as shown in Figures 6-9, and are formed atabout a fortyfive degree angle to the longitudinal axis of the blank I,extend from adjacent the score line 3, and have short curved endportions 6 and 9 which provide easy ingress for the insertion of thecard!!! and also serve to provide side walls which retain the card 10insubstantial parallel alignment with the vertical axis of the folder.

The card ltlv is passed through the slit 9, end

first, into the space or pocket H, Figure 9, between the folded blankparts 5 and 6, until it is stopped by the base I of the tongue '1 whichpasses through this space I I from the blank part 5 into and through thefolded blank part 5. Therefore, the tongue I serves as a support for thecard Hi, the relative sizes of the several members being such as topermit an end portion of the card l0 having an identifying orclassifying symbol, such as a number, to extend upwardly beyond theouter edge of the folded blank partss and 6, Figures 6-9. The card IDmay be mounted in any one of the slits 9 and in different slits atdifferent times to indicate different situations relative to thetransaction recorded by the papers filed in the folder, or differentcolored cards may be pro vided for the several slits 9 to indicatediffering transaction status.

The filed material I2 is clearly indicated in Figures 6 and 7 and, asshown, consists of letters,

memoranda, and other papers, incident to the particular transactionserviced by the folder, for

which papers the opposed walls of the blank part 4 and the lower portionof the blank part 5 and the folded and locked blank parts 5 and 6 forman elongated filing receptacle, accommodation for aligned filing of theedges of the papers being afforded by the space l3, Figure 7, betweenthe score lines 2, which space IS, in the completely formed folder whenin use, is at the bottom thereof between the blank parts 4 and 5.

What I claim is:

1. A folder formed from a blank of paper stock folded along transversescore lines into a multiple ply formation, one of the plies having alocking tongue formed from the stock thereof and'another ply having aslit therein for the passage therethrough and the retention of thetongue, one of the plies having a slit aligned with the tongue for theaccommodation of an identification element passed through thelast-mentioned slit and supported on the tongue intermediate two plies.

2. A folder formed from a blank of paper stock folded along transversescore lines into a multiple ply formation, one of the plies having ahookllke locking tongue formed from the stock thereof and another plyhaving an arcuate slit therein for the passage therethrough and theretention of the tongue, one of the plies havinga slit aligned v 4 withthe tongue for the accommodation of an identification element passedthrough the lastmentioned slit and supported on the tongue intermediatetwo plies.

3. A folder formed from a blank of paper stock folded along transversescore lines into a multiple ply formation, one of the plies having alocking tongue formed from the stock thereof and another ply having aslit therein for the passage therethrough and the retention of thetongue, one of the plies having a slit aligned with the tongue andformed with curved end portions for the accommodation and alignment ofan identification element passed through the last-mentioned slit andsupported on the tongue intermediate two plies.

4. A folder formed from a rectangular blank of paper stock folded alonga pair of transverse score lines into a three-ply formation, theintermediate ply having a locking tongue formed from the stock thereofand an end ply having a slit therein for the passage therethrough andthe retention of the tongue, said end ply having a slit aligned with thetongue for the accommodation of an identification card passed throughthe last-mentioned slit and supported on the tongue intermediate saidtwo plies.

5. A folder formed from a blank of paper stock folded along a pair oftransverse score lines into a three-ply formation, the intermediate plyhaving a locking tongue formed from the stock thereof and an end plyhaving a slit therein for the passage therethrough and the retention ofthe tongue, said end ply having a slit aligned with the tongue for theaccommodation of an identification card passed through thelast-mentioned slit and supported on the tongue intermediate said twoplies, the mentioned two plies and the other end ply forming opposedwalls of a filing receptacle.

6. A folder formed from a blank of paper stock folded along a pair oftransverse score lines into a three-ply formation, the intermediate plyhaving a transverse series of locking tongues formed from the stockthereof and an end ply having a transverse series of slits thereinrespectively aligned with the locking tongues for passage of the lattertherethrough and the retention of the tongues, said end ply having aseries of transverse slits respectively aligned with the tongues for theaccommodation of identification cards passed through the last-mentionedslits and supported on the tongues intermediate said two plies, thementioned two plies and the other end ply forming a filing receptacle.

7. A folder of the vertically filing type forming a filing receptacleand a mounting for a pilot card, the folder being formed from a blank ofpaper stock having three longitudinally-spaced transverse score linesalong which it is folded into a multiple ply formation having a closedbottom end and a top opening to provide an elongated verticalcompartment extending from the bottom closed end to the top opening andhaving open sides, two of the score lines defining the closed bottom endand being only slightly spaced one from the other to provide a basesupport for the edges of a, multiplicity of records filed in thecompartment, one of the plies being a comparatively short blank endmember bent along the third score line and folded into the compartment,said last-mentioned ply being transversely secured adjacent its innerend to a wall of the compartment to form a comparatively short opensidedpocket above the secured area and between said ply and the compartmentwell, said ply being formed with a slit extended from adjacent the thirdscore line and. in alignment with the secured area to permit passing ofan end of a pilot card therethrough into the pocket for support thereofupon the secured area of the plies and the extension of the opposite endthereof exteriorly of the pocket.

8. A folder of the vertically filing type forming a filing receptacleand a mounting for a pilot card, the folder being formed from a blank ofpaper stock having three longitudinally-spaced transverse score linesalong which it is folded into a multiple ply formation having a closedbottom end and a top opening to provide between two of the plies anelongated vertical compartment extending from the bottom closed end tothe top opening and having open sides, two of the score lines definingthe closed bottom end and being only slightly spaced one from the otherto provide a narrow record-supporting base, the folder having a thirdply formed by a comparatively short blank end member bent along thethird score line and extended into the compartment and subdividing thelatter into a comparatively short pocket and a comparatively longoverlying and overlapping compartment, the third ply being transverselysecured adjacent its inner end to the inside face of one of said twoplies to provide the pocket with a closed bottom, the third ply beingslit adjacent the top opening in alignment with the secured ply portionsto permit passing of an end of a pilot card into the pocket for supportthereof upon the secured plies and the extension of the opposite endthereof exteriorly of the pocket.

9. A folder of the vertically filing type forming a filing receptacleand a mounting for an identiflcation element, the folder being formedfrom a blank of paper stock having three longitudinally-spacedtransverse score lines along which it is folded into a multiple plyformation having. a closed bottom end and a top opening to providebetween two of the plies an elongated vertical compartment extendingfrom the bottom closed end to the top opening and having open sides, twoof the score lines defining the closed bottom end and being onlyslightly spaced one from the other to provide a base support for theedges of a multiplicity of records filed in the compartment, the folderhaving a. third ply formed by a comparatively short blank end memberbent along the third score line, infolded into the compartment, securedadjacent its inner end to the in-' i side face of one of the compartmentplies and forming a card-receiving pocket closed top and bottom, theinfolded comparatively short blank end member being formed with anangularended slit therethrough extended from adjacent said third scoreline and serving for the passage into the pocket and the alignment ofanidentification element mountable at one end on the secured area ofsaid infolded blank end member and said compartment ply face and of alength sufiicient to extend through the slit for display of the oppositeend thereof exteriorly of the pocket.

10. A folder of the vertically filing type forming a filingreceptacleand a mounting for a pilot card, the folder being formed froma blank of paper stock folded along score lines into a multiple plyformation having a closed bottom end and Number a top opening to providebetween two of the piles an elongated compartment extending from thebottom closed end to the top opening, two of the score lines definingthe closed bottom end and being only slightly spaced one from the otherto provide a base support for the edges of a multiplicity of recordsfiled in the compartment, two of the plies having, respectively, a slittherein and a cooperating locking tongue passed through the slit andretained thereby, one of the two plies having a slit adjacent the topopening and aligned with the locking tongue to permit passing of a pilotcard therethrough into the space between said two plies for supportthereof at one end on the locking tongue and extension thereof at theother end exteriorly of said space.

11. A folder of the vertically filing type forming a filing receptacleand a mounting for a pilot card, characterized as in claim 10, in whichthere are a plurality of card-passage slits extended across the folder,and in which there are a plurality of slits and cooperating lockingtongues extended across the folder below the aforementioned card-passageslits to form a continuous transverse space into which pilot cards canbe passed through selective card-passage slits.

12. A folder of the vertically filing type forming a filing receptacleand a mounting for identification elements, the folder having twoopposed folded plies forming a compartment with a closed bottom and opensides and a top opening, a third ply folded along a fold linesubstantially parallel to the fold line between said opposed plies andinfolded between the latter, said third ply being comparatively shortrelatively to said opposed plies and being transversely secured adjacentits inner end and across the folder to the inside face of one of saidopposed plies to form a comparatively short continuous transverseopen-sided pocket above the secured area, the secured area forming a.support for pocket content, said infolded third ply being formed abovethe secured area with a plurality of slits extended from adjacent itsfold line and transversely spaced across the folder for selective usefor the passage therethrough of the pocket content.

GEORGE N. DOBIE, JR.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Wolsieifer Mar. 2, 1897 Pardoe Dec. 31,1912 MacGregor July 15, 1913 Helmer Aug. 16, 1921 Weinacht Dec. 5, 1922MacMillan Sept. 22, 1925 Anthony Nov. 24, 1925 Snow Sept. 11, 1928 KrellOct. 22, 1929 Osborn May 24, 1932 Rubins Nov. 19, 1940 Leaming Dec. 21,1940 Efron Sept. 25, 1945 Hermon June 3, 1947 FOREIGN PATENTS CountryDate Germany ..4 Aug. 24, 1937 Number Certificate of Correction PatentNo. 2,452,231. October 26, 1948.

GEORGE N. DOBIE, JR.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specificationof the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows:

ll Gcj lumn 4, line 55, claim 6, after the syllable ing and before ainsert opposed we 8 0 and that the said Letters Patentshould be readwith this correction therein that the same may conform to the record ofthe case in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this 15th day of February, A. D. 1949.

THOMAS F. MURPHY,

Assistant Commissioner of Patents.

